Series Test and Tune!

[MrFlippant]

DRAWW will be meeting at Mike's in Sammamish for a few hours of fun, tuning and testing our Scalextric crash resistant Minis for the next series. We've decided to go with Yellow Dog urethane tires on the rear, but otherwise bone stock with the magnet up front. With so much traction, though, we might go magless, but that's part of what the test and tune is about. So, bring your Scaley Mini and a pair if fitting Yellow Dogs to Mike's this Sunday, the 21st. We'll start at 1, but come any time you can. The Magnet Marshal will be there to help set up cars and even things out. We'll probably go til 4 or 5, depending on who all is there and plans to come.

Also, if you're only curious about digital or DRAWW and don't have a car or anything, that's fine! Come anyway! There will be plenty of time to just play around on Mike's track and meet everyone. I'm sure there will be some IROC racing, or we'll test race our Minis, and someone is bound to have an extra you can borrow.

PM or reply for the address if you would like to come and have never been there.

Sorry for the short notice to anyone checking this forum for DRAWW news!

Thanks!
-Greg

[MrFlippant]

See you guys tomorrow!
Anyone out there who wants to come visit and try things out, you don't have to dedicate yourself to digital just to come and check it out. PM or email me for location info and come have some fun!

[MrFlippant]

Here's a vid of the fun/test race we had that day:

DRAWW - Scalextric Mini test and tune race -...

The Digital Racing Alliance of Western Washington got together to test and tune the Scalextric crash resistant BMW Mini Coopers we are going to race next. After deciding to go with urethane tires, we found that the cars were too stuck down, even with relatively low magnet strength and the magnet up front. We ended up taking the magnet out completely, and adding weight to help reduce tipping and promote sliding. Most of us ended up with about 15g of weight in the available space of the chassis between the motor and the SSD DPR chip up front. The race in this video is a test race with most cars set up this way (though I think one or two cars were lighter, and at least one was heavier). Just for fun, I set this one up as a 50 lap race with fuel. Since Mike's Pit-Pro wasn't working, I turned off pit sensing, which allowed people to refuel on the track if they wanted to risk it. A few of them did so, but it didn't help them at all. Since we're still learning these cars with this set up, we didn't use chips but kept going back on after every crash. Although we had a pretty clean start and good first couple laps, there was plenty of crashing, and therefore track calls. As you can see, it took a while to get through those 50 laps.

The important thing is that we had FUN!